YMCA Emergency Assistance Fund

Analysis

YMCA Emergency Assistance Fund is a registered charity in United States, based in Chicago, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1966, 60 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, YMCA Emergency Assistance Fund reported income of $313k and spending of $116k, leaving 63% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $192k to $313k (+63%), an average of +13% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 186%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, YMCA Emergency Assistance Fund sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 62nd percentile, and in the 63rd percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Oakleaf Endowment Trust Fbo Public Radio International ($313k), Six13 Guard Inc ($313k) and Sandals Foundation Inc ($313k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 82% of the total. At year end it held assets of $2.1m against liabilities of $152k, net assets of $2.0m.